The Real Heiress Only Wants Power

She grew up in an orphanage. The woman who ran it named her Bu Rao, meaning "May disaster never trouble the world."

Later, a kind couple adopted her. She got a room of her own and a colorful childhood, and felt she was the happiest child in the world.

But her good fortune did not last. Their factory was sabotaged, her father died in the hold of a cargo ship under mysterious circumstances, and her mother's health rapidly deteriorated.

Hoping to earn money sooner and ease the burden on her family, Sui Bu Rao gave up the chance to study abroad and chose an internship instead.

When a woman surrounded by black-clad bodyguards approached her, she could hardly believe the story of the real and fake heiresses was playing out in her own life.

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The daughter the Gu family had devoted themselves to raising skillfully handled the board members. Over tea and after dinner, their favorite topic was how awkwardly Sui Bu Rao had stood outside the company headquarters.

They always thought Sui Bu Rao knew nothing.

Until the company ran out of cash, business slumped, its market value lost tens of billions overnight, and its stock price crashed. They rushed to confront Sui Bu Rao.

Sui Bu Rao slowly lifted her eyes, her gaze rising inch by inch, like a cold glint along a blade.

"Sis." She smiled, drawing out each word. "You're blocking my light."

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Rumor had it that the business world’s ruthless tyrant, Sui Bu Rao, suffered from chronic insomnia, yet could only sleep soundly beside Xun Zhou, the vase-like male star hated by the entire internet.

The media erupted, mocking Xun Zhou for sucking up to the powerful, pretending to be innocent and obedient, and stopping at nothing to get ahead.

All his friends said Xun Zhou had been wronged. Sui Bu Rao was the one who had forced herself on him.

Only Xun Zhou knew the truth. He was the one who insisted on pretending to be unwilling, the one who feigned resistance and struggled, putting on an innocent expression as he said, "President Sui, please behave yourself," then secretly liked posts under the hashtag #XunZhouThrowsHimselfAtHer with an alternate account.

"After all, President Sui likes taking what she wants. So I have to make it look like she's forcing me, to suit her tastes, don't I?"

Reader's guide:

A matriarchal society where women bear children. Equality in form, female supremacy in practice.

Women are not pure; men are. A growth story featuring someone who plays the pig to eat the tiger, with a scheming tea-green heroine and a fake coercive romance.

The romance and plot are split thirty-seventy. Anyone involved in the power struggles will have blood on their hands.

After the protagonist grows, she is neither purely kind nor a good person in the traditional sense. All illegal acts will be punished.

Please don't invent plot points I haven't written and use them to make false warnings and attack me. It would really bother me.

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Please check out my upcoming novels: Future Ruins / Unearthing the Cradle of Civilization (I haven't decided which title to use yet).

An expedition to the poles, exploration of civilization, and a road-trip story set in the same world.

Archaeologist Eulia received a strange job offer: to take part in an archaeological dig in the uninhabited Xifu Snowfield.

"Comrade, you are the only one who can see time."

That was what the commission email said.

See time? Eulia could certainly read a clock.

What else could that sentence mean?

The Xifu Snowfield lies in the far north of the continent. It is frozen year-round, and the history books of every nation make no mention of any civilization ever existing there.

Yet the invitation came through official channels, and everyone on the list of people assigned to the project was an old acquaintance.

She figured there was no harm in taking a look.

So Eulia flew to Xifu with her luggage. After a long overland journey across the snowfield, she was stunned into silence by the sight before her.

Beneath the ice, every street and building remained frozen in its final moment of bustle.

The smiles of merchants, children chasing one another, palaces, homes, marketplaces...

An entire civilization had been preserved in the most dazzling and cruel way imaginable.

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The president of the Continental Civilization Preservation Association personally led the team and appointed Eulia to oversee the excavation.

But as the work progressed, Eulia gradually realized that it wasn't quite what she had imagined.

She wasn't tracing history forward, but searching backward.

They weren't excavating a civilization that had already vanished, but one from the future.

She had unearthed the beginning of civilization.

Reader's guide:

A matriarchal society where women bear children. Equality in form, female supremacy in practice.

Polar expedition, road trip, and civilization exploration, with no magic or fantasy elements.

The blurb still needs work, but the basic premise won't change.

Theme: Stand on your own feet and grow strong.